The Toronto Maple Leafs have officially cut ties with 31-year-old defenseman Mike Komisarek, according to Sportsnet 590 The Fan’s David Alter.

The Leafs have exercised one of their compliance buyouts on him, thus sparing themselves of the final season of his $4.5 million annual cap hit.

Since signing a five-year deal with the Toronto Maple Leafs, nothing has worked out as intended. He was limited to just 34 games in 2009-10 due to injuries and also missed a substantial amount of playing time in 2011-12.

He participated in just four NHL games in 2013, but this time it was because he had slipped in the depth charts. Toronto exposed him to waivers in March and he ended up playing for the AHL Toronto Marlies.

See ya Komi! Time to buy out Grabo. Good player but terrible contract.

19to77 - Jul 2, 2013 at 9:32 PM

Give him one more year to rebound. They can use the other compliance buyout next summer too, and I’m sure they’d prefer to give him every chance to earn the money before resigning themselves to paying him to leave.